Erin, 24, is blind-weighed at an eating disorder clinic, Coconut Creek, Florida. She has to mount the scale backward so as not to see her weight gain.
Erin
has numerous self-inflicted cuts on her belly, Coconut Creek, Florida.
The thinner I got, the happier I felt. It becomes illogical. You’re sixty pounds and you think you’re still fat.... I hate being weighed. That is the worst part of my day. I do the blind weights, where I turn backward, but I’m getting to where I can hear the clicks, and I’m afraid to hear that second click at a hundred.
I could name how much I’ve exercised and everything I’ve eaten today. I would say I still have a problem because I cannot skip a day of working out. I think more people [have eating disorders] than you realize, but they keep it blanketed. I’m not going to go up to people and be like, "Hi, I’m Mary Cady. I’m an exercise addict."
Jennifer, 18, at an eating-disorder clinic, Coconut Creek, Florida.
Joyce, 15, Elysia, 14, and Alison, 14, at their friend's sixteenth birthday party, Arlington, Virginia.
Close to a hundred percent of my close friends have been on some kind of prescription drug for depression.... I've been on medications for depression since eighth grade. I went into a hospital for cutting myself.... When you cut yourself, there's this release of endorphins.... It makes you feel euphoric.
I was thirteen. It was really just a one-night stand thing. I met him, and then I ended up getting pregnant.... We ended up drinking in his car, and by the time I got home, I guess I ended up having sex. I don’t remember, but we must have. I went to get out of the car, and I couldn’t even stand up.
Fetus bingo at La Vida, a high school for pregnant girls and teenage mothers, Inglewood, California.
Spring break, Panama City, Florida.
With exhibitionism so much in the vogue, sex without either privacy or intimacy seems an inevitable consequence.